Tower of St John's church, Torquay
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Tower of St John's church, Torquay
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 28 Aug 2009
The west tower was "completed 1884-85 by AE Street to his father's {ie GE Street's} designs ... striking saddleback tower to west with a triple chamfered doorway and inner doorway with detached shafts. Triple lancet window above doorway, above that blind recesses contain slit windows. High transomed richly-moulded belfry window with pairs of trefoil-headed lights above and below the transom. Rose window in gable of tower". http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=390716&mode=adv . This view is from Braddons Hill Road East.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.462768
Longitude
-3.524941